Family / house

Willoughby; Willoughby of Parham; Willoughby of Virginia

Family / cadet branch

Senior male-line Virginia succession from Sir Ambrose Willoughby

Armiger / bearer

Henry Willoughby, 16th Baron Willoughby of Parham

Entity type

individual

Social rank / class

peer

Heraldic authority

House of Lords claim evidence; Greenwood; Burke peerage tradition

Record basis

recording

Issued / first recorded

1767

Until / superseded

1775

Historical period

Georgian England

Grant / record reference

House of Lords recognition on 25 April 1767; treated as de jure 13th holder of the original 1547 barony

Blazon

Or, fretty Azure.

Plain-English description

Gold with a blue interlaced lattice.

Tinctures

Or; Azure

Charges / ordinaries

fretty

Exterior ornaments

Achievement appropriate to a baron of the Peerage of England; no separate differenced shield is established for the restored Virginia branch.

Difference / variant

Restored senior-line succession after the House of Lords accepted the Virginia descent. The shield remained the undifferenced Willoughby coat; the legal and genealogical distinction lies in succession under the 1547 patent, not in a new armorial design.

Source reference

Henry Willoughby, 16th Baron

Linked historical person

Henry Willoughby, 16th Baron Willoughby of Parham

Source

Open source

Genealogical context

Father

Henry Willoughby, de jure 11th Baron Willoughby of Parham

Mother

Elizabeth Pigeon

Spouse(s)

Susannah Gresswell

Children / next generation

Elizabeth Willoughby, later wife of John Halsey

Documented depiction

Open depiction source

Notes / sources